Tag: physics enrollments

Yesterday (Friday the 24th) concluded our third Summer Orientation And Registration (SOAR) session. We had another hundred or so students and their families on campus to learn more about how McMurry works and to set their course schedules for the fall. I got to peak in on registration numbers along the way and noted that we continued to add more students into our first BIMS courses. We are finding about one in ten incoming McMurry freshmen has an interest in BIMS. That makes BIMS one of the most popular and fastest growing majors here.

Some interesting observations so far:

The number of students in freshman-level science courses overall is high. We have 198 registered for first year and general education Biology/BIMS courses, 51 in CS, 88 in Chemistry, 28 in Geosciences, 254 in Math and 51 in Physics. As these are mostly four-hour lab courses, this represents a significant chunk of the tuition dollars coming from science sources.

There appear to be about three new BIMS majors for every Biology major, based on the numbers of freshmen in freshman-level courses for these majors. BIMS courses are running around 90% freshmen, while the other biology courses for majors are running about 50% freshmen.

Enrollment in BIMS 1300 is 50% higher than it was last year. Again, it looks like the Biomedical Science major is catching on!

There are 31 enrolled in the PREP 1105 seminar. This Pre-Professional preparation seminar helps those early-decision health professions students to get themselves ready for application and entry into professional schools like dentistry, physical therapy, medicine, and pharmacy.

So, it has been a successful summer for enrolling BIMS majors and science students overall. There is still time and space for others to join us, and we expect that our numbers will grow before the first greetings are spoken by Dr. Benoit on August 24th. We are pleased with what we’ve seen so far!